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| VAK learning Style
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| Introduction |
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The VAK learning styles model provides a very easy and quick reference inventory by which to assess people's preferred learning styles, and then most importantly, to design learning methods and experiences that match people's preferences.Learners use all three to receive information. However, one or more of these receiving styles are normally dominant. This dominant style defines the best way for a person to learn new information by filtering what is to be learned. This style may not always to be the same for some tasks. The learner may prefer one style of learning for one task, and a combination of others for another task.
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Visual learners
Learn best from information they
see or read.
Examples: illustrations, pictures, diagrams,
demonstrations, displays, handouts, films and
flip-charts.
Able to perform a new task after reading the instructions or watching others doing the task first.
Work by reading lists and written directions.
Auditory learners
Prefer to learn by listening
and often mentally recall the words
they have heard.
Absorb spoken and heard
material easily and like being
involved in aural questioning
rather than reading materials.
Prefer listening to lectures,
stories and songs.
Enjoy variations in rhythm,
pitch and voice inflection.
Prefer discussing and
communicating with other
classmates.
Able to perform a new task
best after listening to the
instructions given by the
teachers.
Kinesthetic learners
Acquire their knowledge best
by doing and moving.
Love moving around frequently
and building things with their hands.
Able to perform a new task
best by going ahead and
trying it out, learning as
they go.
Prefer experiments and
hands-on experience.
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